Elon Musk has weighed in on the row between the Tory leader and Nigel Farage over a tweet in which she claimed Reform UK had faked its membership numbers.

Kemi Badenoch loves a metaphor. We know this because she told us so in a major pre-Christmas interview with the BBC. She likened her mission as the new leader of the Tory party to that of seeking to open a restaurant.

Elon Musk social media platform X has put a fact-check note on Kemi Badenoch’s tweet in which she claimed Reform UK had faked membership numbers. Conflict has broken out after Badenoch accused Nigel Farage of “fakery” after Reform claimed to have surpassed the Conservative’s number of signed-up members.